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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 27 > Power broker’s death shakes up Iraqi party

Power broker’s death shakes up Iraqi party


August 27, 2009

BAGHDAD " Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of Iraq's largest Shiite political party, died Wednesday, creating a leadership vacuum that could weaken the bloc ahead of the January parliamentary election. Hakim, 59, died in Tehran, where he was being treated for lung cancer, his relatives and....

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